The seminar is part of an ongoing effort to increase awareness on car break ins, burglaries at businesses, and home invasions, education to increase security, and how to take action to reduce crime, Woloson said.

"I'm hearing about more and more of these cases," he said. "I think an important part of the process is to get accustomed to reading the Public Safety page in the paper."

Additional seminars are being planned for the public and for broadcast on local cable channels, he said.